Abu Zubaydah

Chronology of Coverage

May. 16, 2015

Poland will pay $260,000 in reparations to Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, meeting deadline set by European court; men are suspected terrorists who were interrogated in secret CIA prison in Poland. MORE

Feb. 19, 2015

Poland will abide by European Court of Human Rights ruling ordering it to pay total of $262,000 in reparations to terrorism suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri; court ruled that Poland violated suspects' rights by handing them over to secret CIA prison in 2002. MORE

Jan. 25, 2012

Ex-Central Intelligence Agency officer John Kiriakou, who is charged with disclosing classified information to journalists about the interrogation of terrorist detainees, finds himself going from acclaimed terrorist hunter to defendent; Kiriakou once coordinated the team that captured high-ranking Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah. MORE

Jan. 24, 2012

Justice Dept charges John Kiriakou, former Central Intelligence Agency officer, with disclosing classified information to journalists about the capture and brutal interrogation of suspected Al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah in 2002; indictment, announced by Attorney Gen Eric H Holder Jr, adds another chapter to the Obama administration's crackdown on leaks. MORE

Oct. 28, 2011

Lawyers for terrorism suspect Abu Zubaydah, who is being held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base prison facility, file a case against Lithuania at the European court of Human Rights over torture and secret detention at a Central Intelligence Agency-run site in that country. MORE

The Central Intelligence Agency redacted what it considered to be classified information from a memoir by Ali H. Soufan, a former F.B.I. counterterrorism expert, including references to “I,” “me” and “my.”

Former President George W. Bush’s forthcoming memoir, “Decision Points,” will probably receive close scrutiny by people who have followed the legal and policy debates that arose over his administration’s approach to the war on terrorism.